diff --git a/tpl/strings/init.go b/tpl/strings/init.go
index dc674c522..54009b897 100644
--- a/tpl/strings/init.go
+++ b/tpl/strings/init.go
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ func init() {
 		ns.AddMethodMapping(ctx.Chomp,
 			[]string{"chomp"},
 			[][2]string{
-				{`{{chomp "<p>Blockhead</p>\n" }}`, `<p>Blockhead</p>`},
+				{`{{chomp "<p>Blockhead</p>\n" | safeHTML }}`, `<p>Blockhead</p>`},
 			},
 		)